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Stranger in blood
Stranger in blood, a person in no degree of relation-ship to another. See schedule to the Stamp Act, 1815 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Death Duties'), by which 10 per cent. duty is payable on a legacy 'to or for the benefit of any stranger in blood to the deceased' testator. An illegitimate child is treated by the Inland Revenue authorities as a 'stranger in blood' within the Act; but see May and August numbers of the Law Magazine and Review of 1905. Aliter as to legitimated children, see Legitimacy Act, 1926, s. 7.One not related by blood, such as relative by affinity, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1433....
Stranger
Stranger, means a person, not a party to an act, contract or title, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889.Means an outsider or foreigner, Webster American Dictionary, p. 144.The word 'stranger', had to be understood not in terms of blood or marriage relationship with the family but as a person unconnected with it, unknown in character and antecedents to the executants of the Deed. The word 'stranger' in the text has, in our view, to be interpreted as that person who has no connection whatsoever with the families of the original executants i.e., the father and two sons, Vijaylakshmi v. B. Himantharaya Chetty, AIR 1996 SC 2146 (2149): (1996) 9 SCC 376.1. One who is not party to a given transaction 2. One not standing toward another in some relation in plied in context, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1433.Strangers, in the Parliament of India, the strangers are admitted during the sittings of the House to those portions of the House which are not exclusively reserved for me...
Blood
Blood, kindred, lineage. It is a maxim that none shall claim as heir who is not of the blood (i.e., kindred) of the purchaser, Co. Litt. 12 a. and see STRANGER IN BLOOD.The relationship arising by descent from a common ancestor; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Succession duties
Succession duties. The (English) Succession Duty Act, 1853, amended by 22 & 23 Vict. c. 21, ss. 12-15, and by the Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, 1881, 1888, and 1889, imposed a new set of duties, varying in amount from 1 per cent. in the case of a child succeeding a parent to 10 per cent. in the case of succession to a stranger in blood, upon real or personal property to which any person succeeds on the death of another. The duty is calculated on the capitalized value for the life of the successor of the property succeeded to, in accordance with a table schedule to the Act of 1853; e.g., if a person aged fifty succeed to property worth 100l. a year, he pays succession duty upon 1242l. 19s. 6d.Succession duties are payable as a rule at the same rate as legacy duty in respect of all property liable to be administered by any Court in Great Britain and Northern Ireland--unlike legacy duty, it falls on property passing by death (succession), under disposition by deed or other instrument (...
Consideration
Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor. See Laythoarp v. Bryant, 3 Scott 250; 2 Wms. Saund 137 h; Currie v. Misa, (1875) LR 10 Exch 153.Consideration is one of the facts which the courts require as evidence of intention, (a) that a person intends his promise to be binding on him, or (b) that he intends to divest himself of a beneficial interest in property. In its widest sense consideration is the price, motive or inducement for a promise or for a transfer of property from one person to another. The nature or quality of the consideration which will be sufficient for these purposes varies with the nature of the transaction and in the absence of consideration the Courts will, except in the case of s...
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